On Mar 20, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Sonali Sridhar wrote:
Yeah this could be an easy win. I'd also like to see a reworking
of the follower / following presentation and workflow. My feeling
on this is that twitter basically has it right. Present some
sampling for other users to use for discovery, show the full list
paged elsewhere with search.
I would be weary of this - remember Melkjug is yet not about the
friend making and finding. Its about the reading - we should get
that step right before making it a social portal. All the hooks
might be in for that but people can get tired of seeing "yet another
social network". We might want to bring out the power of the network
in more subtle manners rather than pictures.
Its important for us to hone in on the sliders and that experience.
No one is doing that too well right now. FB is but in terms of
managing ones taste(its buried). We have a HUGE potential to get
that nailed. Lets not make it a social network right from the start
- if it calls for it we can slowly open that up (but we need
critical mass for that to happen)
True true, I wholly agree -- it's not the core idea and we shouldn't
go too far down that road. I bring up twitter because I think twitter
is about as lightweight as you get unless you're suggesting we drop
follower/following altogether (always a possibility too...) Even
barring that, my concern is that we need to do away with the extremely-
long-lists-of-text in the sidebars for the things we already present.
I think the grid presentation of a slice of that data with that
twitter is maybe a better model. I'm open to better solutions too... :D
- Luke
